The teams are not for sale<\/a>. That\u2019s in capital letters. I want everybody to know the teams are not for sale. I get tired of people asking me [if they\u2019re for sale]. I\u2019m going to turn 79 in January, but I\u2019m pretty healthy. I hear that people want to talk to me about buying the team. I\u2019m like, well, that\u2019s a waste of my time. That\u2019s not going to happen. And people need to calm down about the team moving.\u201d<\/p>\nThat said, Benson restated her long-term plans for the teams.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt remains that when I die, both teams will be sold to the highest bidder and those proceeds will be used 100 percent to improve this community,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
While it\u2019s a great gesture that the proceeds will be used to improve the New Orleans community, the citizens of the community are going to want to keep the team. And the highest bidder may decide that the purchase price can be better realized by taking the team to a bigger market that will create greater revenue.<\/p>\n
Perhaps there will be a term in the sale that makes it impossible (or at a minimum ridiculously expensive) to move the team out of town. Regardless, there\u2019s no way the teams will be sold \u2014 which means there\u2019s no way the teams will be moved \u2014 for during Gayle Benson\u2019s lifetime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sains owner Gayle Benson won\u2019t be firing long-time G.M. Mickey Loomis. She also won\u2019t be selling the Saints,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":292833,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-292832","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-nfl","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}